Author Archives: Niall Murphy

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The Swinglet Cam drone takes off, flies and lands by itself, following a pre-programmed flightpath and taking a series of high-resolution pictures based on user-defined GPS waypoints. The pix are downloaded when the drone lands.

It’s said to cost around €7000.

Cheap, compared to its cousin in the US military.

Your Very Own UAV (Crunchgear)

First place: Brock Landers

Runners Up: Cúán MacConghail (bottom, right), Proving Ground.

Well done, young quipsters. Your Easi Singles are just a stamped addressed envelope away:

Broadsheet.ie Win A pack of Easi Singles Caption Comp,

c/o Brendan Smith,

Dept. of Agriculture, Food and Fisheries,

Agriculture House, Kildare St. Dublin 2.

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Pogo (Nick Bertke), an electro-music artist from Perth, samples sounds and images from classic Disney movies (and elsewhere) to form mesmeric new tracks.

Kids love ’em, but this is charming stuff no matter what age you are.

If you liked ‘Wishery’ (above), his latest, you’ll love ‘Alice’ (below), his best known work.

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More here at the PogoMix site.

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Another kinetic typography video (Remember the last one?) from Cee-lo Green in advance of next weeks release of the new album.

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